Engineering teams in aerospace and defense, industrial energy, turbomachinery, and high-performance automotive use nTop to explore design spaces and optimize performance at a scale traditional CAD can't support, compressing months of iteration into hours. We're a growth-stage company with deep roots in computational geometry, and we're at an inflection point in how our product works and what it needs to become.
We're looking for a Staff Product Designer to rebuild and lead our design function, and to define how expert engineers understand, build, and reason about complex computational workflows.
The challenge
nTop's users are aerospace engineers optimizing structural and thermal performance across conceptual design phases, analysts running physics-based simulations to evaluate hundreds of variants at once, and computational designers whose workflow looks more like software development than traditional drafting.
Our interface has to match their precision, reducing friction without hiding power, making complexity legible without making it shallow. That means learning the visual vocabulary of a domain (signed-distance fields, vector fields, surface continuity, CFD overlays) and designing systems that make it coherent and navigable for experts.
And then there's the larger shift underway. nTop has historically been a workstation application: one engineer, one screen, one design session. That model is changing. Our customers increasingly need to synthesize millions of design variants, run physics-based simulations across all of them, and optimize against mission requirements. These are workloads that require high-performance computing, not a single laptop. Our product already has this capability, but it requires custom code and infrastructure work to deploy. We're investing heavily in making these workflows a native part of the nTop experience, which means designing entirely new surfaces: web-based interfaces, agentic development environments, workflow orchestration views. This is the most significant product design opportunity we have, and it's largely uncharted.
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